corybantic
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Grocer's apostrophes are scribbled out, misspellings fixed, and good lord the corybantic orgy of less/fewer corrections.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013
From his life with his mother he would seem to have gotten not only an abiding detestation for the beautiful per se, the noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now the tune grows frantic, Now the torches flare— Wild and corybantic Echoes fill the air.
From Challenge by Louis Untermeyer
Still must thou live and corybantic die, A traceless meteor in a clouding sky; Thy name a cheat; thyself, a world-wide lie?
From Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) by Julia Griffiths
The Australian larrikin and his "donah" dance at "down the harbor" picnics with a fixed solemnity of face, as if performing some weird corybantic rite.
From England by Sir Frank Fox
